Auto-generating descriptors from @types/three .d.ts files?

[johnrees]

I think you might be able to generate descriptors (or anything really) by walking the AST of the @types/three .d.ts files. They'll probably still need extra 'human work' but maybe it could be a good starting point?

This is an extremely fragile proof of concept that can quickly spit out files like https://github.com/johnrees/three-parser/blob/master/descriptors/geometries/sphereGeometry.ts. Its current major shortcomings are -

• it doesn't yet recursively look for parent classes or shared interfaces etc
• I'm cheating by using a static template rather than generating proper Typescript with the Typescript compiler

What do you think @toxicFork? Would it be useful if I worked on this?

[johnrees]

I also had a very quick look at extracting properties from the docs html, but there are some inconsistencies because they're manually curated https://github.com/johnrees/three-docs-parser/blob/master/index.js

[toxicFork]

This is awesome!!

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[toxicFork]

And yes it'd be very useful to work on this. Let's do that together? :)

[johnrees]

Fantastic, yes that would be great! Not sure the best way to tackle this but I started a PR with some info here 0569dda#diff-370a1a3a7683bd722dc6d74ff5984f61

I guess it makes sense to keep the work in the main repository. Although it should go to a new topic branch rather than master #38

[johnrees]

The README is garbage and probably doesn't make a great deal of sense haha I was just spewing out what was in my head 😬

[toxicFork]

Great work :) I'm going to take a break for a few days but when I come back this is the first thing I'll look at!